We have been season ticket-holders since 1967 and this is the seventh time we have lost in the Super Bowl ticket lottery. I can guarantee you that we would be there in the stands and not scalping the tickets, as many do. The postcard that we received from the team is especially insulting if tickets that could have been allocated to us have been used to pad their pockets. [The Broncos sold an undisclosed number of tickets to a company that is reselling them as part of a travel package.]

Many preferred season ticket-holders have won tickets through the “lottery” on more than one occasion. My biggest beef is that prior winners still get preferred treatment. If the Broncos eliminated prior winners, then every season-ticket account would now have had an opportunity to go to a Super Bowl. This system would truly show the Broncos’ support of their fans.

Tim Hoops, Denver

This letter was published in the Jan. 25 edition.

Shame on Broncos owner Pat Bowlen for essentially stealing the average fan’s shot at affording a Super Bowl ticket. Pat seems to have forgotten that as Colorado’s all-time welfare recipient — via myself and other taxpayers quadrupling his then-already-staggering net worth overnight by buying him a new stadium — our team (not his) gets to go. Perhaps he ought to share his unearned wealth by “allowing” fans to buy tickets at face value. Shame on him. How much money can this guy want?

Bruce Bernstein, Evergreen

This letter was published in the Jan. 25 edition.

I hold two Broncos first-level season tickets that I purchased in 1960, plus four other tickets that I’ve purchased in the years since. Back when Super Bowl tickets were offered on the basis of priority, I did receive two tickets to Super Bowl XXI in 1987 in Pasadena, Calif. Since then, under the lottery system, I haven’t received an offer. I was, however, among the several hundred ticket-holders since 1960 who were entertained and honored for 50 years of support by the Broncos at a party in the stadium locker room in 2011.

I think Pat Bowlen has, in the 30 years since he bought the Broncos, put the best possible product on the field. Now we have one that’s for the ages. I’ll be amazed if we ever see another team in the NFL that matches this one. I don’t believe he owes me or the fans any more than that. Super Bowl? I’m just happy we’re there and that I’ll get to watch it.

Bill Kostka, Denver

This letter was published in the Jan. 25 edition.

We have been Broncos season ticket-holders for 37 years and were very lucky to have our name drawn in the lottery to get Super Bowl tickets. However, because we are currently out of town and not able to go to the Broncos’ ticket office in person during the three days allowed to get the tickets, we have been told told we cannot have them. We provided a letter stating that our son could pick up the tickets on our behalf with a copy of our credit card (we have already paid for the tickets), but the team would not release the tickets to him.

After several calls to the Broncos’ office, we are very frustrated that a resolution could be made. We were told “our” tickets would not be resold but used for “organizational purposes.”

This does not seem fair or reasonable for loyal Broncos fans. We were told there are no exceptions. Who are they trying to help but themselves?

Mike and Vickie Greunke, Littleton

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In this March 14, 2013, file photo, Chicago Cardinal Francis George speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Rome, Italy. The Archdiocese of Chicago spent decades covering up the sexual abuse of children according to documents released by Church officials last week and being made public on Jan 21, 2014, by victims’ attorneys. (Michael Sohn, The Associated Press)

Every year or so there is another headline like the one in Wednesday’s Denver Post. This constant drip of information over the last several decades has got to stop. When will the Catholic Church willingly turn over its documents without being forced by the lawyers of abused children? It is about time the Catholic Church willingly turned over all remaining documents so that we can trust the church not to continue the practice of covering up priests who have been accused of child molestation.

Carolyn Ayars, Littleton

This letter was published in the Jan. 25 edition.

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Jesse Quintana, 5, won the Smally Fry division of this year’s Colorado Fiddle Championships at the National Western Stock Show. (Ben West, Colorado Kids)

Re: “‘Small fry’ bows to no competitor,” Jan. 21 Colorado Kids story.

In your Colorado Kids section, you had a wonderfully well-done piece by 13-year-old Ben West. He obviously enjoyed both the Colorado Fiddle Championships and young Jesse Quintana. I read the article twice just for the pleasure. May we see both of them in the main section in the future.

Darcie Boelter, Denver

This letter was published in the Jan. 25 edition.

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